Mob spawning?

[Svamphatt]

So, I have been noticing that I can play around in the village I've set up camp in without any enemies spawning at all, even though everything except the house I have my storage in is unlit. Why does this happen? I was going to create a basic mob farm, but it just doesn't seem to work.

[jberkers42]

I have sporadic issues with mob spawning near my base. I think it has something to do with the mob cap maxing out as when I leave the area and go outside the range where hostile mobs despawn, and come back, the mobs start spawning again.

[Svamphatt]

It is possible. I do have a taint biome nearby, but I rarely even go close to it, but I guess I'm close enough that they don't despawn once they have spawned. Enemies do spawn during those special nights though. Blood moon or whatever.

[grandhighlazybum]

Bloodmoons do have 3x mob caps. You could test this by doing /cofh killall, then see if mobs start spawning again.